No more crushing blows have ever been struck at the roots of Indian National evolution than those which have been struck, often with other, and the best intentions, in the name of Education... The most crushing dictment of this Education is the fact that it destroys........(1/n)
In the great majority of those upon whom it is inflicted, all capacity for the appreciation of Indian culture. The ordinary graduate of an University... is indeed a stranger in his own land."
- Ananda Coomaraswamy
- Ananda Coomaraswamy
Rabindranath Tagore found that Indian students -
"Never have the intellectual courage, because they never see the process of those thoughts which they are compelled to learn - and thus they lose the historical sense of all ideas, never knowing the perspective of their growth.....
"Never have the intellectual courage, because they never see the process of those thoughts which they are compelled to learn - and thus they lose the historical sense of all ideas, never knowing the perspective of their growth.....
They not only borrow a foreign culture, but also a foreign standard of judgement; and thus, not only is the money not theirs, but not even the pocket. Their eductaion is a chariot that does not carry them in it, but drags them behind it.The sight is pitiful and very often comic."
Vivekananda :
"In India, we have been cut off by a mercenary and soulless education from all our ancient roots of culture and tradition... The spiritual and intellectual divorce from the past which the present schools and universities have effected, has beggared the nation......
"In India, we have been cut off by a mercenary and soulless education from all our ancient roots of culture and tradition... The spiritual and intellectual divorce from the past which the present schools and universities have effected, has beggared the nation......
Of the originality, high aspiration and forceful energy which can alone make a nation free and great. To reverse the process and recover what we have lost, is undoubtedly that first object to which we ought to devote oursekegs.... Much as we have lost as a nation,.......
we have always preseverd our intellectual alertness, quickness, and originality; but even this last gift is threatened by our University system, and if it goes, it will be the beginning of irretrievable degradation and final extinction. The very first step in reform must......
Therefore be to revolutionise the whole aim and method of our education."
Slogans such as "unity in diversity" have acquired a hollow ring, especially when what constitutes and nurtures this "unity" is carefully kept out of sight......
Slogans such as "unity in diversity" have acquired a hollow ring, especially when what constitutes and nurtures this "unity" is carefully kept out of sight......
The unspoken line of thinking underlying this attitude is that India's cultural heritage is basically useless to students: in the rat race of jobs, it would be dead baggage to them......
Cultural heritage is fine for political speeches, museums, and to attract foreign tourists, but not for teaching: no one should doubt that all useful knowledge comes from the West. India cannot m, therefore generate knowledge: her ambition should only be.......
To become an efficient recipient of knowledge generated elsewhere. No longer the land of Knowledge, only a pale colony.
It (the "Education") leaves them at best ignorant of, and and at worst inimical to, what India has stood for in the world history. It ingrains in them a subservient mindset that sees West as the ultimate reference point.......
- Michel Danino, French-born Indian scholar, author and educationist, currently at IIT Gandhinagar, in his paper 'Integrating India's Heritage In Indian Education' published in Dialogue. 🙏
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